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A12209	Two sermons: preached by that faithfull and reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to the honorable society of Grayes Inne; and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22520; ESTC S114825	20,880	93

then crucified to us and when wee beleeve that hee that was dead is now risen from death and dies no more we beleeve that our graves also shall be opened and that we shall rise as he rose to immortalitie of life Hence every true Christian may draw water of life to comfort him in all his distresses For Christ hath conquered all his spirituall enemies and the resurrection of Christ is an evidence of his most certaine conquest of them all For if he had not so conquered hee could not have risen and therefore when he rose the third day hee bad his Disciples not to feare Matth. 28. 10. as much as to say feare not death for I have overcome death with the power of my resurrection from death Feare not sin for I have satisfied for sin nor the divell for I by my resurrection have layd him flat upon his backe bruised his head and led him in triumph openly Feare not this evill world for I have overcome it And what shall I say more I have trod upon the neckes of all your spirituall enemies I have conquered them all So then what cause of feare therefore feare not for if you bee risen with Christ you are begotten to a lively hope where spirituall Resurrection is there is hope of life as the Apostle doth soundly reason 1 Pet. 1. 3. A ground therefore of precious comfort to every true Christian. Now in that wee are raised by the same power to a spirituall life whereby Christ rose from the grave it teacheth us how wee should conceive of the work of the new birth also of the Image of God in us and of the new creature The worke of grace in a Christian is not a slight worke a word and away as many thinke but it is a powerfull worke as appeares in that there are so many hinderances to keepe a man dead in sinne from rising out of it many more then there were to keepe Christ from rising out of the grave of the earth Yet in his resurrection did the power of God mightily appeare as Ephe. 1. 19 20. Now as Christ was killed and had a stone rolled over his Tombe So he that is dead in sinne hath the stone of long custome rolled upon his heart which to remove requireth as great a worke of Gods power as was required to raise Christ. Wherefore let those that finde a change in their hearts the stone removed breake forth into the praise of God for an inestimable favour such as this is which is the powerfull worke of God more powerfull then the making of the world of nothing for there are many adversaries For another use Consider this rightly eyther to provoke unto thankefulnesse if you have beene wrought upon or to prayer if not seeking unto God for this in the use of the meanes who onely is able to work this change in you and will in his good time But to cut off many things that might here be spoken of wee will to bee short now speak of the inference If you be risen and risen with Christ by his power then seeke those things which are above The inference or reason is thus much they that are thus risen have a new life for every resurrection notes a new kind of being if spirituall then a spirituall being if bodily then a glorious life This life is sutable to our Resurrection as if the Apostle had sayd you are risen with Christ from the death of sinne therefore manifest your Resurrection by the life of righteousnesse more specially by actions proportionable and cohaerent with your new estate This is the meaning from whence wee note this Doctrine That every life and state of life requireth answerable actions If you be risen with Christ and so have a spirituall life as you professe to have then carry your selves answerably and seeke those things that are above that is such things as may maintaine and are sutable to that life of yours This is the Apostles manner of reasoning in this place And this is so in nature yea and so in corrupt nature it is so in grace and shall bee so in glory For the first it appeareth plainely for even those creatures that are in the water delight in it because it is their proper element and they cannot live without it Secondly it is so in corrupt nature he that is covetous the very conceit that hee hath of his riches doth as it were feede him he cannot live without them So he that lives a carnall life here dies if hee be taken from it then hee is as a Fish upon dry ground Take a Fish out of his element and he cannot live So for this man take his wealth and take his life it is so in grace and shall bee so in glory when the body is risen glorious There is a forsaking of all communion with sinfull men and there wee shall have communion with God and Christ and Christ shall be all in all unto us Then that which all creatures supply to us here Christ will there Then our songs will be holy and our actions holy fitting such a glorious condition And this heaven is begun here or it will never be Grace is therefore called heaven because heaven is begunne where grace enters and because glory that is heaven cannot begin but where grace is So then a Christian that is risen with Christ must have nothing to doe with carnall men nothing I say further then he is thrust upō them or that he may convert them They must not familiarly company with men of a contrary spirit they must seeke by all meanes to act godlinesse in their conversation And thus should the life of a Christian bee set sutable to his new estate and holy calling But if wee should try all by this rule how few would be sound to be risen with Christ for how few would delight in heavenly company or in heavenly actions as to praise God or to commune with God in prayer This is a death to most men and to be so is to bee out of the world also to have such company and to bee so exercised is a dead life in their fleshly opinions And now againe to the Apostle the Apostle saith here Wee must seeke those things which are above with Christ. Seeking implyeth first a want a man will never seeke for that which he knowes he hath Secondly it implyeth a valuation and esteeme of the excellency of that thing which we seeke Thirdly it implyeth hope to get it else who would seeke it but leave it rather as a thing desperate Fourthly it doth imply meanes and the use of meanes to attaine to that wee seeke through want or other wayes with hope of finding it Lastly he that wants a thing which he doth highly esteeme and may attaine unto in the use of the meanes will by all meanes avoyd all contraries that may disappoint his hope of speeding And here

the damned And take this with you the more sence you have of the love of Christ the lesse you will regard the pleasures the riches or contempts of the world And indeed what joy can bee compared with this that the soule hath communion with Christ All the world is nothing to this And now seeing you cannot require this love of Christ yet shew your love to him as you may and as you may manifest your love to his members and kisse them with the kisses of your love Doe good to the poore especially to those poore that have the Church of God in their Families As the woman powred her oyle on the head of Christ so doe you powre some of yours upon the feete of Christ. That which yee would doe to him if hee were here that doe to his members in whom he is after a sort present with you Thereby you may further your communion with him and make him your debter then as one saith well hee can be no loser that makes God his debter THE POWER OF Christs Resurrection COLOS. 3. 1. If yee he risen with Christ seeke those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God THis Verse hath dependance on the second Chapter before the twelve and thirteen Verses of that Chapter where the Apostle tells the Colossians that they were risen with Christ from the dead by Faith and quickned by the Spirit that raised him hereupon followes this inference If therefore yee be risen with Christ shew it by seeking after those things which are in heaven or are heavenly The Apostle had much adoe to roote out those dangerous seedes of conceit which false teachers had sowen upon these Colossians touching some legall ceremonies as touch not taste not handle not he tells them that these dead things have no life of use now and that therefore if they be risen with Christ they must fall to other matter seeking those things that are above These ceremonies were indeede appointed by God at the first but now being ended and brought to their grave they must be buried there never to rise againe And therefore no more to be revived as being not dead onely but deadly As I sayd the Apostle finding their hearts tainted with this false doctrine having first sought by purging to drive it out of their hearts and liking he now begins to season them with that truth which is after godlinesse that is with heavenly and other truths and doctrines not of men such as were those of these false Apostles but of God where hee begins with generall instructions and then proceeds to particular callings as of husbands and wives of parents and masters of children and servan's Now because the well managing of the particular duties of these particular callings depends on a good principle that is that they bee sound in Christianitie which is the generall Therefore hee begins first to season their hearts with that grace of their generall callings knowing that it is so much the easier to bee good in their particular callings when they are first good in the generall But if not good in the generall then never good in the particular If a good man then a good husband a good father and a good master fit for any good service but if not a good man then good for nothing So a woman if a good woman then a good wife and good in any calling So for children and servants if good in the generall then good in the particular also But to come to the order of these words they containe first a ground and then an inference upon that ground If you be risen with Christ there is the ground then seeke the things that are above there is the inference From the ground observe two things First that Christ is risen himselfe Secondly that wee therefore shall rise For the first It is an Article of our Faith and the Holy Ghost hath taken a great deale of paines to prove it It is the confidence of Christians it is the maine or free hold that wee have for wee hold all by the resurrection of Christ as of fee and wee have sixteene apparitions of him to prove this Besides it was impossible that hee should bee held of the bonds of death Impossible I say being invested with these three offices of King Priest and Prophet Impossible as hee was King for how then could hee have triumphed over his enemies here and in hell Impossible as hee was Priest for if hee had not risen how could hee have made daily intercession for us as he doth And lastly impossible as he was a Prophet for else how could he have instructed his people in doctrines of salvation But when rose hee wee say with the Scriptures and our Creede the third day Now as Christ rose and rose the third day manifesting thereby that he was dead and this after so great basenesse for his greater glory So it is to teach us that as it was with him so it is with all his members never nearer helpe then when at the worst nor more glorious then when basest for Christ for then it appeares to bee Gods owne worke who therefore will raise them to glory that he may be glorified in and by them When therefore wee are in any distresse voyd of the helpe of man then God will come in and raise us up whether in our credit estate or persons c. onely therefore let us have patience for a while and waite his comming But as Christ is risen so we shall rise Hee is the meritorious cause of our resurrection hee hath deserved that wee should rise Also he is the worker of it and by that same power whereby he rose againe by the same will he raise up us at the last day He is every way the cause of our rising and hereupon we are risen with him As hee was a publick person in his death and as upon the Crosse hee stood in the place of all the elect so as all their sinnes committed or foreseene to be committed were layd upon him and hee bare the iniquitie of us all so after and now he freed himselfe and us by his Resurrection First he freed himselfe of his suretiship our bond was taken up and our debt payd where justice lost not a penny by us So wee were freed in him and for him and therefore he rising wee are to rise with him for what should hold us in the grave now that deaths bands are loosed or shal the head be above water and the members perish in it But further to speake of the Resurrection This Resurrection of Christ is twofold spirituall and corporall spirituall when wee take life from Christ and being quickned by him begin to rise with him corporall when our bodies shall bee raised at the last day When wee beleeve that Christ is dead for our sinnes our sinnes are then in their grave and Christ is